In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

Never let anyone use your toothbrush or your pen. -Author Wllm Worth

Always trust in proven survivors.

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Tis always morning somewhere.

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.